This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast.

Ting here, and trust me listeners, you don’t want to blink—China-related cyber shenanigans are moving faster than a high-speed train from Shenzhen to Shanghai. Let’s zero in on the absolute most jaw-dropping action from the past 24 hours: Yes, if you felt a little draft on the digital front, that’s probably because the Salt Typhoon hack continues to be the chill you can’t shake. Over the weekend, new details dropped about the scale of this breach, and it’s got people from Palo Alto to Pensacola clutching their firewalls. U.S. and allied officials have now confirmed that Salt Typhoon, operating on behalf of Beijing, swept up data on nearly every American—no exaggeration. We’re talking telecommunications giants, government servers, transportation networks, military channels, and even that hotel you stayed at during last year’s conference in Vegas. If you made a phone call, swapped a text (President Trump, Vice President Vance, I’m looking at you), or jotted down anything less secure than a cryptic post-it note, odds are good the Chinese Ministry of State Security skimmed it like a barista topping your coffee. According to the joint statement, the worst part isn’t what they stole. It’s the fact that these actors are transitioning. Espionage was yesterday—today, CISA’s top brass say Chinese operatives aim for operational control, probing the weak spots in utilities, pipelines, aviation networks and water systems. Think your Wi-Fi is safe? Not if you’re using smart meters, Chinese cloud storage, or remotely managed solar inverters. The Czech Republic just publicly warned its entire critical infrastructure sector against Chinese tech and remote data routing. Apparently, the underlying concern is simple—by law, Chinese companies must share data with their government, so if your solar panels or smart fridges are phoning home to Shanghai, your operational secrets might be on the party line. Meanwhile, over in D.C., Representative John Moolenaar discovered he’d been “virtually cloned.” Chinese APT41 sent malware-laden emails in his name to federal agencies and trade groups, attaching so-called “proposed legislation” full of spyware—just in time for last month’s trade talks with Beijing. The FBI and Capitol Police are on the chase, but the lesson is plain: even Congress isn’t immune from China’s digital masquerade. On the malware front, CISA released an emergency alert on WhatsApp’s CVE-2025-55177 zero-day vulnerability, now actively targeted by hackers. With Meta platforms scrambling to patch, CISA’s message is not subtle: patch ASAP if you don’t want a digital eavesdropper with a Shanghai accent poking through your group chats. Recommended emergency moves? CISA wants every critical infrastructure operator running immediate audits, reviewing cloud service exposure, blocking suspicious IPs, deploying the latest threat signatures, and—yes, the old-school step—updating every last device, especially anything remotely resembling Chinese hardware or firmware. That’s all for today on China Hack Report, listeners. Smash that subscribe button and get these daily insights delivered straight to your brain—because in this cyber chess game, you never want to be caught a move behind. Thanks for tuning in! This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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